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GCSE Leisure and GCSE Leisure and TourismTourism
Introduction to Leisure Introduction to Leisure and Tourismand Tourism
UNIT 4UNIT 4
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Activity 1For each of the people listed below, suggest a product they could use in their leisure time costing about £25 which would be suitable for them and explain your suggestion.
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Activity 2Suggest five leisure activities for each of the following people:
Mr Brown aged 66, a
retired teacher who lives with his wife and has two young
grandchildren.
Errol aged 25, has a degree in
electronics and works
for a computer company.
Elizabeth aged 42, who lives with her
two boys, aged 10 and 13.
Sunita aged 14, who has
two older
sisters.
Malcolm aged 33, who is
confined to a
wheel-chair.
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Activity 3Think about the leisure activities for these two people:
Gemma is 14. She has been a member of her local swimming club for five years and has won the backstroke events for the last two years. She represents her club at regional meetings and has won some races. She trains every weekday from seven to eight o’clock each morning. She has been invited to
training camps at Crystal Palace from where she might be selected for the national swimming squad. She attends a swimming competition most weekends.
Gemma is 14. She has been a member of her local swimming club for five years and has won the backstroke events for the last two years. She represents her club at regional meetings and has won some races. She trains every weekday from seven to eight o’clock each morning. She has been invited to
training camps at Crystal Palace from where she might be selected for the national swimming squad. She attends a swimming competition most weekends.
Alan is 27. He is a member of his
local amateur athletics club and
enjoys running marathons. He
trains on four or five days a week
and runs about 20 miles on each
day. He represents his club
in competitions and runs
marathons in different parts of the
country including the London
marathon. He has also competed
in the New York marathon. To
help keep fit, Alan does not drink
alcohol.
Alan is 27. He is a member of his
local amateur athletics club and
enjoys running marathons. He
trains on four or five days a week
and runs about 20 miles on each
day. He represents his club
in competitions and runs
marathons in different parts of the
country including the London
marathon. He has also competed
in the New York marathon. To
help keep fit, Alan does not drink
alcohol.
For Alan and Gemma, discuss and write about the advantages and disadvantages about the way they choose to spend their leisure time.
Work with a friend to complete this work.
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Activity 4
From what you remember, what leisure activities were you mainly interested in when you were 10 years old?
What games were you playing?
What music were you listening to?
What TV programmes were your favourites?
Which films do you remember seeing?
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Activity 5
Use www.photolibrarywales.com to select about 10 images which you think show the culture of Wales. Put the images into a presentation about Welsh culture.
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Activity 6Carry out a web search for singles’ holidays and single parent holidays to see what is available.
Choose a holiday for each category under £200. Give details about what is included.
Singles’ holidaysSingles’ holidaysSingles’ holidaysSingles’ holidays Single parent holidaysSingle parent holidaysSingle parent holidaysSingle parent holidays
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Activity 7Think of a list of 10 sports and leisure activities which are mainly enjoyed by men, 10 which are mainly enjoyed by women and 10 which men and women enjoy doing equally.
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Saturday Sunday
Activity 8Make a time line of your leisure activities for the previous weekend. Identify what activities you took part in with friends, what you did with your family and what you did on your own.
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Activity 9Whilst working with a partner, think of a number of leisure activities which have become more or less popular in recent years. For each activity, suggest one reason for the change in popularity.
Leisure activity Reason for increase or decrease in popularity
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Activity 10Complete the table below by describing the method of transport you would use to get to the following facilities from where you live. Give as much information as you can e.g. time taken, routes, how regular is the service, etc.
Where do you live?
Facility Type of transport used – with details
Your local leisure centre
The nearest beach to where you live
A major football ground
Your nearest cinema
A DVD rental facility
A takeaway restaurant
Your nearest National Park
Your nearest shopping centre
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Activity 11Think of five leisure and tourism products such as new films, console games and holidays which you have seen promoted recently. Identify in the boxes below the different ways in which they were promoted.
Name of leisure or tourism product
The different ways in which the product was promoted.
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Activity 12Choose five sports stars who are ‘media personalities’ and put together a ‘pen portrait’ for each one.
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Activity 13Explain why the influence of the media is so important in the ways in which people choose to spend their leisure time.
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Activity 14Suggest four different leisure facilities which you would like to see made available near to where you live. For each say how it would affect your leisure choices.
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Activity 15Using tour operators’ websites, such as Thomas Cook and Thompsons, find holidays which cost about £1,000, £2,000 and £5,000 per person. Provide details of the holidays in the boxes below.
For £1,000 you can…For £1,000 you can…
For £2,000 you can…For £2,000 you can…
For £5,000 you can…For £5,000 you can…
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Activity 16Make a list of the leisure facilities close to where you live which offer some form of fitness activity or exercise class.
Name of facility Types of exercise and fitness activity offered
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Activity 17Make a list of restaurants close to where you live and identify the types of food they offer.
Name of restaurant Types of food on the menu
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Activity 18Describe how your household makes use of new home-based entertainment and how this has developed in the last five years in your home.
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Activity 19Make a list of leisure facilities near to where you live and describe what they offer to older people.
Name of facility What is offered to older people
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Activity 20Use websites to find out flying times from UK airports to the following destinations.
Destination UK departure
airport Flying time Website used
Rome
Barcelona
Las Vegas
New York
Cape Town
Toronto
San Francisco
Dubai
Miami
Athens
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Activity 21
Make a summary of the various factors related to changing lifestyles named below:
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Increased affluence Increased affluence
Healthy lifestyle Healthy lifestyle
Changing tastes and fashions Changing tastes and fashions
Changing family structure Changing family structure
Environmental awareness Environmental awareness
Influence of media Influence of media
New home-based New home-based entertainment entertainment
Ageing population Ageing population
Transport developments Transport developments
Changing holiday patterns Changing holiday patterns
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Activity 22Weigh up (assess) the advantages and disadvantages of using cars for leisure, travel and tourism purposes. Think about this from the view of tourists, organisations and destinations.
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Tourists:
Organisations:
Destinations:
Tourists:
Organisations:
Destinations:
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Activity 23
Put the stages of making a booking and using online check-in into the correct order.
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Go to the airport.
Go through security screening.
Make your way to the departure gate.
Confirm your identity with your passport.
Look for flights on the day you want to travel.
Check-in online 24 hours before departure.
Check the price of the flights.
Choose your seats.
Take you luggage to the bag drop.
Make a booking using a credit card.
Print your boarding cards.
Select the most suitable departure time.
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Activity 24
Use the Virgin Atlantic www.virginatlantic.com and British Airways www.ba.com to find out times of flights to the following destinations and the cost of an economy ticket.
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Dates Time
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New YorkFebruary 21st
returning on March 2nd
San Francisco
July 17th
returning on August 4th
Las Vegas
October 8th
returning on October 24th
MiamiMarch 29th
returning on April 14th
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Activity 25What do you think are the main advantages of online booking and check-in systems for airlines and their passengers?
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Activity 26Make a list of the different pieces of media technology equipment (TVs, mobile phones, games consoles, PCs etc.) you have in your household. Identify who uses them and suggest for what purpose they are used.
Type of equipment Who uses it? For what purpose?
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Activity 27Imagine you had £1,000 to spend on media technology equipment for your home. Suggest what equipment you would buy and explain what difference it would make to the leisure time of people in your household.
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Activity 28Work with a partner.
From the list of digital technology in the box below choose 5 which have made the most difference to home-based leisure activities in your household, and give reasons why.
Digital Camera
High Definition TV
XBox 360 Surround Sound – Home Cinema
iPhone Apps
PlayStation 3
Compact Disc iTunes DVD
Personal Computer
Internet
Satellite TV
Laptop computer
MP3 player
Person 1 Person 2
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Activity 29Summarise the ways in which new media has changed home-based leisure in the UK.
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Activity 30Undertake a web search by typing in the words ‘home fitness equipment’. Choose three pieces of equipment. Identify what features the equipment has (screen, controls etc) what it is designed to do and how much it costs.
Equipment FeaturesWhat is it designed to do?
Cost
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Activity 31Can you think of six occasions in the last few weeks where someone providing you with a service in a leisure and tourism situation has used some form of technology system or piece of equipment to help them?
Leisure or tourism situation Equipment or technology being used
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Activity 32Use the website www.expedia.co.uk to compare the prices of a room in a four star hotel in Cardiff for a weekend.
Hotel Cost
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Activity 33Summaries the impacts of tourism on Cardiff in the diagram below.
A positive economic impact:
A negative economic impact:
A positive environmental impact:
A negative environmental impact:
A positive social impact:
A negative social impact:
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Activity 34Using the diagram below, make a simple statement about the impacts of tourism on Malta and see if you can develop your answer through further research using the websites provided.
A positive economic impact:
A negative economic impact:
Simple statement:
Development:
Simple statement:
Development:
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Activity 34Using the diagram below, make a simple statement about the impacts of tourism on Malta and see if you can develop your answer through further research using the websites provided.
A positive environmental impact:
A negative environmental impact:
Simple statement:
Development:
Simple statement:
Development:
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Activity 34Using the diagram below, make a simple statement about the impacts of tourism on Malta and see if you can develop your answer through further research using the websites provided.
A positive social impact:
A negative social impact:
Simple statement:
Development:
Simple statement:
Development:
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Activity 35Complete the table below to produce a comparison between mass tourism and ecotourism.
Ecotourism Mass Tourism
The type of destination visited... The type of destination visited...
The accommodation used..... The accommodation used.....
Food & drink.... Food & drink....
Tourist activities.... Tourist activities....
Interaction with local communities... Interaction with local communities...
Souvenirs bought... Souvenirs bought...
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Activity 36Summarise the 11 point plan for encouraging sustainable tourism in Dartmoor National Park in the table below.
Name of scheme/idea Brief outline of how it helps sustainability
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Activity 37Use’ Google Maps’ to locate the Kasbah du Toubkal in the Atlas mountains in Morocco.
How many miles is it from the Kasbah to Marrakech?
How long does it take to fly from London to Marrakech?
miles
hours
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Activity 38Using information from the Kasbah du Toubkal website (www.kasbahdutoubkal.com ) and the images available from the e-book, produce a PowerPoint presentation to show the products and services of the Kasbah du Toubkal.
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Activity 39Write out 6 points to explain why the Kasbah du Toubkal is a good example of sustainable tourism.
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Activity 40Design a poster attracting people to the Kasbah du Toubkal.
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Activity 41Go to the ‘press cuttings’ section of the website to watch the short video produced by Dutch television – 3 OP REIS. Describe the landscape of the area around the Kasbah.
